islandgun Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 Oh how good it will be when we are finally cashless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 1 minute ago, islandgun said: Oh how good it will be when we are finally cashless Sarky 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 Nooo. unfortunately that will take away a freedom given by cash? The establishment will then have total control of everyones finances? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samboy Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 We'll have to go back to paying in goats sheep etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted July 19 Author Report Share Posted July 19 12 minutes ago, old man said: Nooo. unfortunately that will take away a freedom given by cash? The establishment will then have total control of everyones finances? Going by today's news, the establishment doesn't have control either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matone Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 Today`s events should wake everyone up to the slippery slope that we are sliding down using fallible technology without a real backup in place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 I think today's events should make governments around the world have a long hard think, because one private company literally has the power to grind most of the world to a halt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serrac Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 28 minutes ago, welsh1 said: I think today's events should make governments around the world have a long hard think, because one private company literally has the power to grind most of the world to a halt. Yes, we definitely need to globalise the global IT infrastructure. Wait, what, um... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 It was terrible, we couldn't get breakfast at Spoons because I only had my credit card on me, I had to buy stuff at Aldi then cook and clean myself 😥😥 The horror 🤣🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnphilip Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 All this made worse with loads of branches of banks closing down . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted July 19 Author Report Share Posted July 19 A prolonged outage of key commodities or service would have serious consequences. Imagine no fuel or supermarket food both reliant on computers to function. Then multiply it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 This was human error, pushing out an update with a bug. I have been flat out all day remediating and fixing all the chaos that our company ended up in. This is not the first time something this has happened. Just as it was global and has hit so many companies, due to it being an anti virus / cyber security company. A fox was rolled out very quickly and worked well. Just unfortunately some servers and systems take a long time to recover from this type of fault . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoli 12 guage Posted July 20 Report Share Posted July 20 8 hours ago, ShootingEgg said: This was human error, pushing out an update with a bug. I have been flat out all day remediating and fixing all the chaos that our company ended up in. This is not the first time something this has happened. Just as it was global and has hit so many companies, due to it being an anti virus / cyber security company. A fox was rolled out very quickly and worked well. Just unfortunately some servers and systems take a long time to recover from this type of fault . was the "fox" that was rolled out any relation to Basil Brush🤔😁😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted July 20 Report Share Posted July 20 It has passed me by. Everything I have done "on line" went exactly as usual, including banking, checking tracking on an item, checking e bay, Amazon, my (admittedly limited) social media, news and normal 'browsing' (inc. of course PW). I have not encountered any site that is 'down' in my 'cyber travels'. If I hadn't read it on the news pages/heard on radio - I wouldn't have known about it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted July 20 Report Share Posted July 20 I saw a very clever bloke on sky news explaining what happened and how systems should have alternatives like pen and paper options. He said that it was nothing. new and it was known in the trade as ( Strive and Survive) And that companies should have backup systems for when things fail as they will and do. At the moment the wife and I are away for a few days and apparently the hotels reception computer is down and it is all down to pen and paper. At the hotel there are quite a lot of trades and I notice that they all appear to be paying with wads of CASH. That to me indicates that there are a lot of cash fiddles going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Clavata Posted July 20 Report Share Posted July 20 The best meme I’ve seen so far is someone asking how Liz Truss’ first day at Microsoft is going😂😂😂 1 hour ago, Minky said: I saw a very clever bloke on sky news explaining what happened and how systems should have alternatives like pen and paper options. He said that it was nothing. new and it was known in the trade as ( Strive and Survive) And that companies should have backup systems for when things fail as they will and do. At the moment the wife and I are away for a few days and apparently the hotels reception computer is down and it is all down to pen and paper. At the hotel there are quite a lot of trades and I notice that they all appear to be paying with wads of CASH. That to me indicates that there are a lot of cash fiddles going on. Everybody likes a bit of cash, the concerns of us little people are relevant but will not be heard. It’s the corrupt big people that will prevent cashless ever happening in this country not us. The thing is if we did go cashless then things like what’s just happened would be either eliminated at source, preemptively addressed or mitigated very quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted July 20 Report Share Posted July 20 3 hours ago, Zoli 12 guage said: was the "fox" that was rolled out any relation to Basil Brush🤔😁😉 Trying to brush the mishap under a carpet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted July 20 Report Share Posted July 20 9 hours ago, Zoli 12 guage said: was the "fox" that was rolled out any relation to Basil Brush🤔😁😉 After the day I had I'm glad it was just the one typo 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jega Posted July 20 Report Share Posted July 20 If anyone has been affected by this either at home or in their workplace here's the fix . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.357shooter Posted Sunday at 15:48 Report Share Posted Sunday at 15:48 this had no effect on my day to day life.glad to see all the idiots with smart phones not able to buy anything.progress my ****. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Clavata Posted Sunday at 16:52 Report Share Posted Sunday at 16:52 Such a way with words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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